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  1. Of course there will be. This is not a zero sum game. It's just not obvious to you what that sector is yet.

    1st Turkey: Yay, the farmer's coming. I told you he would, he does every day. Dinner time!
    2nd Turkey: He's forgotten the food sack.
    3rd Turkey: So he has. Hey, what's that long shiny thing in his hand?

    (Overheard just before Christmas/Thanksgiving).

  2. Crazy talk, I know... on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Trick is, how do you get yourself a benevolent one, and not one of the malicious ones?

    Idea:
    One, you all get a say in who the dictator is.
    Two, he's only a temporary dictator.
    Three, you don't let him do whatever he wants. You have limitations, decided in advance and very hard to change, on his powers.
    Four, you also choose - ideally by a different method, or at different times - a sort of committee thingamabob that can say "hey - stop that".

  3. Very few people used to have servants

    Twaddle. In Victorian times anyone who wasn't poor had at least a charlady.

  4. Why do you think a comma should be followed by a capital letter?

  5. Bowel trouble.

  6. Re:Of course just knowing is gross, but... on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Talking of hair, I took my kids for a swimming lesson last week. The pool has a strict policy that you have to wear those stupid hats.

    Anyway there's this guy there, tribal tattooed hipster twat, with a beard you could lose a badger in. And then he gets out and takes the hat off and he's as bald as two fucking coots.

    Tell me, what's the point of this rule, other than "because"?

  7. Re:Look at the bright side on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a swimming pool for half of August. The rest of the year it's a skating rink.

  8. I use bash a fair bit and I'm a lazy bastard, so I like tricks and shortcuts. I rarely find anything on SO that works first time without tweaking.

    So I hope nobody's blindly copying and pasting stuff into medical or avionic applications, but I wouldn't be surprised if somebody is.

  9. Because will run into is in the future tense and he doesn't have a time machine.

  10. Re: Perhaps a better method... on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's perl, so there's probably a pragma that reverses the meaning of the signs because one guy had a reason once.

  11. Re: Not a problem at all on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People born into some religions have absolutely no choice in the matter and not only do they face whatever consequences they were brainwashed to believe if they disobey it, they can also face physical harm and even death by changing their religion.

    I don't live in Iran and neither do you.

  12. If only someone could invent a kind of interweb where you can type an unknown word in and it finds a definition of it. I'll wager a useful thing like that might be easily worth a hundred of Her Majesty's finest pounds.

  13. Re:urinating in reservoir on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This reservoir has a fence round it that's impervious to all animals, does it? And a net over the top to stop dead birds landing in it? Make that a really fine mesh, or live birds could shit in it & insects could get in.

    Now consider how credible the story is.

  14. Re:Of course just knowing is gross, but... on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's reacting with urea, which is also present in sweat, you ignoramus. And chlorine does not actually smell like a swimming pool.

  15. Re:Innovations run the company into the ground on Why Your Boss Will Crush Your Innovative Ideas (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Privately held companies *do* have shareholders.

  16. Re: In Yakima, WA... on Why Your Boss Will Crush Your Innovative Ideas (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There was this complete idiot who decided to do an all-nighter. At 2 a.m. I^H he was 90% finished but fading fast. Instead of going to his hotel (all of 400 yards away), taking a nap and coming in early he pushed through and at 2:15 *totally* broke it.

    By 7 the next morning he'd more or less got it back to where he'd been 5 hours earlier...

  17. Disciplinary action can - along with a rule that if it's not on camera, and there's no corroborating evidence, the cop is assumed to be "confused and/or mistaken".

  18. Re: Well no fuckin shit on Why Your Boss Will Crush Your Innovative Ideas (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Some wop guy - Micky Valli or something - said it 400 years ago.

  19. The Guadian, eh?

    I might be inclined to believe that it's a subtle joke, if it wasn't for the fact that it was posted by manishs who is such a mong he has 21 copies of chromosome 3.

  20. What you're missing is that that's the smartest way to do it.

    That's utter fucking rubbish. Just cutting & posting a code snippet that you don't understand (if you did, you wouldn't need to crib it, would you?) also brings in a lot of assumptions that you aren't even aware of. You're sorting a list - Does it assume there are no duplicates? You're searching two directories for duplicates - what if they're directly or indirectly the same directory?

    Very often the bit of code that does what you want is like a postage stamp. The code that stops it doing what you don't want is the size of the postcard.

    You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you, you hipbook facetard shitcock.

  21. Half of programming is debugging the spec, and that involves challenging assumptions.

    Here's one for you to start with: all programming jobs are the same as yours.

  22. For a senior position with high pay I'd rather hire the person who writes the pages that gets looked up on google

    Would you? I'd rather have someone who does his work, rather than the whole world's - including potential competitors' - and on my dime, most likely.

  23. But launching one from the moon, even setting aside issues of aiming, would still require escaping the satellite's gravitational field, a task that requires the power and thrust contained in a huge rocket.

    Translation: this is a load of bullshit - a total non-story.

  24. Re:Uber need to get a clue. on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    NO ONE won the presidential election of 1932.

    In that case Hitler didn't, so I'm right.

    Don't cherry pick your history.

    Which WWI veteran in ill-health appointed you as chancellor?

    The NSDAP were psychotic before Hitler was their leader and had plenty of support in their early days too.

    How does that prove Hitler was elected?

    You really are a fucking idiot sometimes.

  25. Re: Most "English speaking" people... on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Was that worth posting? It sure as hell wasn't worth reading.